Running an independent media outlet is tough, and there's a company called NewsGuard that's making it even harder. NewsGuard claims to rate online content, including from media outlets, to see how trustworthy it is. But if we...
There certainly is a lot of buzz surrounding the #TwitterFiles. Now, Jack Dorsey has come out and admitted that his 'biggest mistake' was creating the authoritarian censorship toolbox.
In 2022, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren authored a bill that would require cryptocurrency wallet providers to comply with bank Anti-Money Laundering rules. Not crypto exchanges, mind you, but the wallets themselves. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall joined her on the proposal as a co-sponsor.
Forget Big Brother, Big MUM is Google's new tool for suppressing conservatives.
Elon Musk announced that X, previously known as Twitter, plans to take legal action against organizations funded by financier George Soros. These organizations are accused of advocating for restrictions on free speech.
In recent years, prominent national security officials and media outlets have raised alarm about the unprecedented effects of foreign disinformation in democratic countries. In practice, what they mean is that democratic governments have fallen behind in their command of the methods of information warfare in the early 21st century. As outlined herein, while information warfare is a real and serious issue facing democratic governments in the 21st century, the war on disinformation, as currently practiced, has backfired spectacularly and done far more harm than good, as evidenced most clearly by the response to COVID-19.
The article below lists the top 50 organizations to know in the Censorship-Industrial Complex, with Information Futures Lab (IFL) at Brown University topping the list. On January 17, 1960,...
The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The silencing tactic that has most commonly provoked attention and debate is the banning of particular posts or individuals by specific social media platforms. But the censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond those relatively limited punishments.

Elon Musk vs. ADL

Elon Musk vs. the ADL has reached new heights, as Musk recently mentioned Ron Coleman's op-ed on how the ADL has lost its way. This morning, the conflict between...
According to former White House adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, Twitter’s COVID-19 censorship led to the loss of life by preventing people from making the appropriate use of caution.